Top Staff Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

The role involves designing and building AI-native systems for revenue teams at Upside, including developing applications, partnering with teams, managing the entire stack, and improving system reliability and performance.

Lead global lab technical expertise for datacenter power and cooling testing. Drive standardization, safety, training, and process improvements across labs. Advise on test methods, equipment, and staffing; partner with stakeholders to digitalize and automate testing, apply Lean principles, and develop competency criteria and training materials.

The Staff Supplier Quality Engineer manages supplier quality performance, leads CAPA reviews, conducts audits, analyzes KPIs, and mentors junior engineers.

Lead large-scale technical initiatives across the stack, designing and delivering scalable React/TypeScript frontends and Node.js backends. Ensure performance, security, reliability, CI/CD, testing, and cloud operations (AWS). Mentor engineers, partner with product and design, debug complex issues, and drive architectural decisions and best practices.

Design, build, and scale backend microservices and APIs for high-volume financial and transactional systems. Implement secure integrations with payment processors and banks, develop data-driven account and transaction services, ensure data integrity and performance, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver production-grade fintech features with strong development practices.

Own and evolve Babylist's AWS infrastructure and developer platform using Terraform and Kubernetes. Improve CI/CD reliability, support engineers across environments, define monitoring and alerting standards, lead incident response and postmortems, and shape platform architecture to scale for millions of users.

Design, build, and scale cloud-native infrastructure with automation-first approach. Develop Terraform modules, Helm charts, Istio routing, observability (Prometheus/Grafana/Datadog), maintain GCP databases, improve CI/CD, and use AI agents to automate and operationalize reliability and developer experience.

Lead the development of an AI-powered platform for senior mental health, building systems for patient experience, and mentoring the engineering team.

Senior individual-contributor full-stack engineer who designs, builds, and ships end-to-end product features. Leads technical direction, modernizes legacy systems, debugs distributed systems, owns production reliability and on-call, and mentors engineers. Drives AI-native development adoption while collaborating with Product and Design and improving team practices, observability, testing, and deployment workflows.

Design and implement full‑stack, low‑latency web-based Ground Control Station and C2 systems (map-centric UIs, real-time telemetry, video streaming), lead architecture and APIs, mentor engineers, support field tests and mission deployments, and ensure interoperability with C2 standards.

The role involves providing technical leadership, hands-on execution, and cross-team influence in software engineering, focusing on solutions for scaling and performance challenges while using AI tools.

Own technically complex, mission-critical areas and define technical strategy for new products. Design and ship full‑stack, AI‑driven features end‑to‑end, build scalable data ingestion and API systems, partner with product/design/customer teams to translate ambiguous problems into measurable outcomes, mentor engineers, and raise engineering quality and standards across the organization.

Technical leader for Salesforce release lifecycle: design and evolve enterprise CI/CD, automate deployments, manage cross-system releases (Salesforce, NetSuite, AWS), resolve deployment and production issues, and integrate AI-driven tooling to improve velocity, reliability, and developer self-service.

The Principal Engineer will lead architectural decisions, mentor engineers, write production-ready code, and design scalable systems to support growth.

Own infrastructure, deployment, operational tooling, observability, deploy safety, and incident response for latency-sensitive institutional trading systems across cloud and colocated environments. Improve reliability, performance, and developer velocity; reduce single points of failure; establish operational standards and automation; partner with engineering, product, markets, and SRE; and mentor engineers in a 24/7 production environment.

Build and operate reliable, scalable cloud infrastructure supporting Webflow products. Lead initiatives that improve reliability, reduce incident and triage load, and optimize cost and performance across multi-region environments. Develop infrastructure automation, modernize services, improve on-call and incident response, collaborate with product engineering teams, participate in design reviews, and mentor junior engineers. The role requires expertise in cloud platforms, containers, infrastructure as code, Cloudflare tooling, distributed systems, and software development.

Lead architecture and implementation of platform and data infrastructure; define technical strategy and roadmaps; build, automate, and document platform solutions; lead cross-functional projects, mentor junior engineers, ensure CI/CD, containerization, IaC and cloud best practices, and support risk management and compliance.

Designs, develops, debugs, optimizes, and validates firmware and system software for high-performance IoT platforms across Linux, Android, and real-time operating systems. The role involves embedded programming, automated and unit testing, multi-core architecture debugging, architectural collaboration, cross-disciplinary feature development, and cloud-based validation at scale.

Lead the technical vision and architecture for backend systems supporting experimentation, personalization, analytics, and conversion optimization. Design and operate high-throughput distributed systems and APIs, build data infrastructure, and productionize AI/ML capabilities. Drive complex multi-team initiatives, influence engineering strategy, establish technical standards and operational excellence, and mentor senior engineers. Partner with product, data science, ML, and engineering teams to translate business needs into scalable solutions.

Own Garner’s cloud reliability strategy across AWS and Kubernetes, including SLOs, observability, incident response, infrastructure automation, cost optimization, and security compliance. Lead complex incident resolution, architect Terraform-based infrastructure, establish deployment and monitoring standards, mentor engineers, and use AI tools to automate operational work. Support high-scale AI/ML workloads while setting technical direction for platform reliability and production quality.

Lead enterprise-scale service mesh implementation across AWS EKS clusters and hundreds of microservices. Establish Kubernetes standards, operate production infrastructure, improve GitOps and CI/CD automation, support PCI DSS compliance, mentor engineers, and drive reliability, observability, capacity planning, incident response, and global platform architecture for a 24/7 SaaS environment.

Design, build, and run secure production infrastructure across cloud-native and air-gapped deployments. Own end-to-end platform outcomes, harden the artifact pipeline for signed releases, embed with teams to advise on security and deployment best practices, and partner with GRC on STIGs, CVE remediation, and audit readiness for classified environments.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead technical strategy, ensure system availability, and develop backend systems at scale, collaborating across teams to drive capacity modeling and operational quality.

The Engineering Manager for Developer Productivity will lead a remote team to enhance developer productivity, focusing on AI integration, tooling evaluation, and team development while collaborating with cross-functional partners.

Own and engineer Arcadia's go-to-market technology stack (Salesforce, Planhat, RocketLane), building integrations, automations, and AI agents. Lead platform overhaul, data quality, reporting, deployments, documentation, user enablement, and cross-team partnership to scale Sales, Marketing, and Customer Operations.